From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #12 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 5 2011 Volume 19 : Number 012 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Neglected gems [Jeremy Osner ] Cyclone Tracy over OZ. [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: 1-800-JAMES-DIV [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Neglected gems [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Neglected gems [Rex Broome ] Re: Neglected gems [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Neglected gems [Jeremy Osner ] MacBook [Jill Brand ] Re: MacBook [Rex Broome ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 07:25:03 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Neglected gems Is "the live-in years" different from the track on "Bad Case of History" that's called "the living years"? "The living years are over-easy, drown them in a vat of wine"? I have not heard this track very many times at all. J 2011/2/4 : > Hi all - been cheering myself up this evening listening to some old > tapes/CDs of Robyn rarities, some of which have been unlistened to for a > long time. A couple of thoughts from them: > > 1) Is "The live-in years" Robyn's most neglected gem? How come no-one > mentions this track? It's also possibly his most subcontinentally-influenced > (the only other one I can think of with any real South Asian influence is > the octaved violin of some versions of "Beautiful Queen") In my mind I hear > what would be a startling maskup of The Live-in Years and something by > Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan... > > 2) I've never noticed how influenced the song "Innocent Boy" seems to be by > Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. RH certainly knows CR's music - he's covered > "Come u8p and see me" live, I know. Anyone else notice the similarity in > feel, or am I going mad here? > > James > -- > James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand > -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- > =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. > -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- > .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:17:03 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Cyclone Tracy over OZ. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/feb/03/cyclone-yasi-in-pictures-queensland?picture=371412280#/?picture=371373920&index=15 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:30:05 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: 1-800-JAMES-DIV >Just so James can keep up with what's going on his country. > >Because, as you know, Americans make other countries exist (even, or >especially, the ones with which we're at war.) > >http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/travel/30new-zealand.html?nl=travel&emc=tda1 > >xo Heh. Hopefully this doesn't mean we're at war! FWIW, the main adventure area around Queenstown and the Kawarau Gorge are only a couple of hundred miles from where I live (if you look at the map in the article, I live at the bulge in the east coast to the right of the "D" of "Island"..Never done any of the adventure sports activities, though I've been tempted by a few of them. And a nice article on NZ from the BBC yesterday, too - James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:31:35 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Neglected gems >Is "the live-in years" different from the track on "Bad Case of >History" that's called "the living years"? "The living years are >over-easy, drown them in a vat of wine"? I have not heard this track >very many times at all. That's the same one. The tape (now being digitised) that I have lists it as "The live-in years", which is also how it's listed at The Asking Tree. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:58:52 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Neglected gems On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM, wrote: > Is "the live-in years" different from the track on "Bad Case of >> History" that's called "the living years"? "The living years are >> over-easy, drown them in a vat of wine"? I have not heard this track >> very many times at all. >> > > That's the same one. The tape (now being digitised) that I have lists it as > "The live-in years", which is also how it's listed at The Asking Tree. As do most of the bootlegs. "The Living Years" is that execrable Mike + The Mechanics song upon which Mr. Paul Carrack rode in a spectacular arc across the sky, providing him an ideal vantage point for viewing the shark far below. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 22:30:47 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Neglected gems 2011/2/4 Rex Broome : > > As do most of the bootlegs. "The Living Years" is that execrable Mike + The > Mechanics song upon which Mr. Paul Carrack rode in a spectacular arc across > the sky, providing him an ideal vantage point for viewing the shark far > below. That's as may be; but the lyric that Mr. Hitchcock is singing here sounds to my ear very much like "living" and hardly at all like "live-in"; though I suppose there is no requirement for the title of a tune to be the same as it's chorus, still I find it more plausible when the two are so similar, that they be identical. And anyways I thought Mr. Winkler was the one who jumped the shark. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 22:35:51 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Neglected gems And thanks, Grutness and Rex, for making me think to put "Bad Case of History" on the hi-fi. I am listening now to "Lost Tribes", which had until now totally escaped my attention. Wow, is this Morris and Andy that are accompanying him here? J 2011/2/4 Rex Broome : > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM, wrote: > >> Is "the live-in years" different from the track on "Bad Case of >>> History" that's called "the living years"? "The living years are >>> over-easy, drown them in a vat of wine"? I have not heard this track >>> very many times at all. >>> >> >> That's the same one. The tape (now being digitised) that I have lists it as >> "The live-in years", which is also how it's listed at The Asking Tree. > > > As do most of the bootlegs. "The Living Years" is that execrable Mike + The > Mechanics song upon which Mr. Paul Carrack rode in a spectacular arc across > the sky, providing him an ideal vantage point for viewing the shark far > below. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 23:50:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: MacBook Lauren, my son got a MacBook for college almost 4 years ago, and he uses many of its features (including hours on Garage Band recording himself singing all four voices on Josquin masses - who knew?). It is still running fine. I'm writing this from a MacBook Pro that I bought myself as a present after Obama won the election, and I have no complaints. Fuck you, TC. :) Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 04:57:04 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: MacBook On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > Lauren, my son got a MacBook for college almost 4 years ago, and he uses > many of its features (including hours on Garage Band recording himself > singing all four voices on Josquin masses - who knew?). It is still running > fine. I'm writing this from a MacBook Pro that I bought myself as a present > after Obama won the election, and I have no complaints. > > Fuck you, TC. > Cognitive dissonance much? In a good way. When this here MacBook dies, it'll be less " fuck you for dying, MacBook" than "fuck you, fate and reality, for depriving me of my MacBook!" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #12 *******************************